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Old June 2nd 04, 08:51 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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Default Reduce Traffic - Turn left on a RED

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, it was written:

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:21 +0100 (BST), (Peter Beale)
wrote:

One thing which struck me as very odd (apart from driving on the wrong
side of the road) was a number of quite major cross-roads where traffic
from all four directions is required to stop.


The four-way stop has a significant benefit compared to a roundabout, in
that it is completely fair. It does not allow one heavily trafficked
route to monopolise the junction at peak times.


Hey, what if British roundabouts changed direction on a periodic (or
perhaps random) basis? That would make them fair.

Actually, it wouldn't, would it? More fun, though!

tom

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